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Poet and NER contributor Margaree Little has recently received a 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, an honor annually given to six emerging women writers. Created by novelist Rona Jaffe to support the careers of promising female authors, each selected recipient receives a $30,000 award.

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Volume 36, Number 2Cover art by Merrill Shatzman

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Rondanini Pietá | Sean Warren

In Milan, the travel books direct us first to Leonardo’s Last Supper, the opulent fresco of high Renaissance color faded by moisture and rattled by Allied bombs during World War II. Contrary to Michelin, Lonely Planet, and the rest, however, I recommend—no appointment necessary, as with the Last Supper—a visit to the Sforza Castle, where there stands in splendid isolation a sculpture of such muted mystery and power that it is liable to alter your perception of reality, and of life and death, in a way that Da Vinci’s masterpiece will not: Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietá.